What Do You Think? Ravenna, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Ohio employers need to think hard about how they are going to protect their employees from falling off of roofs during work. Fall protection is required in […]

What Do You Think? Newport, AR (WorkersCompensation.com) -- No matter how severe or upsetting an injury may be, a claimant in Arkansas seeking permanent disability still has to demonstrate that she can no longer work […]

What Do You Think? Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits due to COVID-19 sometimes seek to extend those benefits based on symptoms of “long-COVID.”  It can be hard for doctors to objectively […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As an employer or workers’ compensation carrier in New York, when should you fight a COVID-19-related claim, and when should you not? A case involving a worker who drove sick […]

What Do You Think? Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To be compensable under a workers’ compensation act, an employee’s injury must occur in the course and scope of employment. Sometimes, an employee’s claim that his injury […]

What Do You Think? Scarborough, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The exclusivity provision in Maine’s workers’ compensation act bars an injured worker, or representative, from suing an employer after obtaining workers’ compensation benefits. One case addresses whether […]

What Do You Think? Henderson, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Companies and employees involved in workers’ compensation claims sometimes fight over whether diversity jurisdiction exists such that the case can be heard in federal court rather than […]

What Do You Think? Louisville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Kentucky, an employee may be entitled to a three-times multiplier of his permanent partial disability benefits if he can show he lacks the physical capacity to return […]